A method for the transmission of data to a magnetic read head of a payment terminal. The method is implemented by an electronic device capable of generating a magnetic field representative of an encoding of the data to be transmitted, and the transmission of the data includes a plurality of emissions of a same sequence of standardized data. The standardized data is data representative of a payment means and is formatted according to the ISO/IEC 7813 standard. The method further includes transmitting secondary data that are emitted between two successive emissions of the sequence of standardized data.
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2. The method for the transmission of data according to claim 1 wherein said secondary data comprise at least one piece of data representative of a bank authentication token.
3. The method for the transmission of data according to claim 1 wherein said secondary data comprise at least one loyalty program identifier.
6. The method for processing data according to claim 4, wherein said processing comprises, when said secondary data take the form of at least one loyalty program identifier, transmitting said at least one loyalty program identifier to a loyalty program management server.
7. The method for processing data according to claim 4, wherein said comparing the sequence of characters with at least one piece of reference data comprises comparing the sequence of characters with a plurality of reference data representative of types of secondary data.
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